It has become a running theme across numerous windows that we have had leftover budget that never seemingly gets spent in following windows. Funny that.

In only 4 starts I don't think he looked average enough to suggest that we should immediately sell him on. I do wonder if he is somewhat tarnished in the original posters mind in regards to potential links between Mowbray's family and Aberdeen?

But surely the point is that you play a style that best suits the players at your disposal.

I don't get why Hedges would be one that we have already decided that we want rid of. He hasn't played much and when he did break into the team he looked pretty good.

The manager predominantly, in tandem with other staff members. Either way, the owners should not be vetoing transfers and interfering. I presume you have watched plenty of Plymouth to be able to comment based on your assertion the other day that I cannot comment on Jack Vale's loan spell at Halifax having never watched him there?

Incredible how much people still willingly defend the owners to a fault no matter what. There is always a good budget that happens to never be spent. Apparently them overruling the manager is perfectly justifiable. When they dont reinvest any money its purely down to FFP. Everything can be pinned on Mowbray and Waggott even though its been a 12 year shit show.

No, I would appoint a manager that I trusted had more expertise than me to dictate transfer dealings. If I didn't trust him I would get a new one.

His transfer record is very mixed (plenty of good and bad) and I wanted him sacked both this summer and last. I defend him when say things that are blatantly untrue ie one of (you have previously said the) worst managers ever. Just a bog standard one who did ok overall. But owners should never overrule the manager on footballing decisions. If they dont trust the manager they should sack the manager and do at normal football clubs.

How anyone can possibly justify owners overruling the manager they choose to employ is absolutely insane. And how the owners intercepting a potential sale at considerable profit is "irrelevant" in the case of Rothwell is again beyond having an agenda.

Kaminski would have already been on a senior wage therefore his increase will likely have been much smaller and taken much less negotiating than Nyambe and Rothwell in particular who may have expected wages befitting their statuses when their previous contracts were when Nyambe hadnt established himself and when Rothwell had signed from Oxford.

The blame can't go solely on Waggott, as incompetent as he is at other key aspects of his job. There is clearly still a lack of joined up thinking at the club hence why Rothwell was about to be sold for a considerable profit only for the owners to stop it.

They would have gone straight back up assuming they went down but the style wasnt "attractive" enough. Glad he isnt their manager though as they are worse without him.

The 2 questions that then come are: Is the budget from the owners enough? Factoring in money allowed to reinvest in the last year, seemingly not. Is everyone in the club working together? Based on the Rothwell situation, definitely not, and possibly never will be under these owners.

Also, absolutely no acknowledgement of the point beside the truth question, in that what exactly is a "good" offer? Its subjective, so to take that and take it as gospel seems strange.

When they tried to sell one of them to raise funds on what would have been a large profit on a Mowbray signing, the owners wouldn't let them! Your refusal to give them a tiny bit of the blame is laughable.

Why is it always about trusting everyone, often blindly whilst removing critical faculty? We may well have offered good offers relative to our budget but if the budget was small to begin with, then it isn't good relative to the general market.

It's not as simple as that. The key scenario you miss is the potential to sell to retain some value. Rothwell is the obvious one and you had people on the ground wanting to sell and replace, but internal conflict with our idiotic owners. The Lancashire Telegraph I think reported that Nyambe was subject to bids from Stoke last summer, again, should we have accepted, and was everyone on the same page? How do you know that they were good offers? I am not convinced that we are offering competitive wages to be honest. Also, see above on potential sales.

Does anyone know if renewing season ticket holders in the same seat will get new cards and if so, roughly when? I may have missed it being mentioned. The club are typically silent when you tweet them, too busy uploading endless pictures to respond to customer queries.

West Brom are close to signing Tom Lawrence on a free. Him, Swift, Wallace, Dike, Robinson and Grant is a formidable attack at this level.

The only part that could be subject to any criticism is the time taken to appoint both people, especially considering that it was seemingly known internally that Mowbray was to leave this summer. My point was just that whenever a club changes manager, they will be playing catch up in the market with the new man/men wanting their own players etc. By the time our recruitment process restarted, many/most teams will have made progess with quite a few getting deals over the line. That specific point wasnt a criticism. If indeed Kompany was aware of his appointment before Tomasson, then the latter is naturally playing catch up.

I have repeatedly said that it is unrealistic to expect ALL of a group of youngsters to all successfully break through together out of necessity. I dont doubt that we have talented youngsters and I am sure that some will emerge but I feel uncomfortable at the idea of forcing it simply because lots of players have left the club. Ive never once claimed that I know more than JDT either. None of us on this messageboard have an equal level of expertise to him. Nor did any of us have a similar level of expertise to Mowbray. I am merely giving my opinion, if we can only give our opinion if we feel more qualified than professional managers then we may aswell close the board.

Absolute rubbish. The point is not that these kids aren't good enough either now or eventually. It is expecting a decent number at once to all be ready at the same time, which puts pressure on them because if any aren't ready, perhaps just at this very moment, we are left short of options and needing to play them at times regardless which likely will hinder their development if they struggle. Who has ever said that they "expect these academy lads to come in and never make a mistake?" That is a straw man argument whereby you have taken an extreme version of what people are debating to make people seem like they are unreasonably impatient. Some of the young lads may be best served developing further, whether here or out on loan like Wharton and Carter have done with success, that is down to the individual player. Some can be on the fringes and if they impress, by all means give them a chance as and when, if they swim, they keep their places, if they sink we crucially have enough alternatives for it not to massively hinder our chances of getting results. But no, if you want to portray it as an angry group of people with pitchforks not giving anyone a chance, that is up to you. And Mowbray's disdain for youth? Our side was the second youngest in the league last season, with Wharton, Buckley and Travis key components that he has brought through, as well of course as Lenihan and Nyambe.

Ive never at any single point suggested, implied or claimed that he isn't.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20238208.blackburn-rovers-transfer-latest-squad-train-portugal/ 6 players AT MOST will almost certainly leave us short going into the season so I hope that it is just Rich Sharpe guessing. From what I see, we have one very good goalkeeper at this level with no competent substitutes. We have one very good centre back, a second who is also good but never fit and a solid enough left back. We have a good central midfielder who will start every week, a number 10 as good as anyone in the league if he recovers and another very promising first team number 10. We have 3 wide men all of whom have a good amount of promise but none of which have shown the ability (as much down to circumstance to be fair) to contribute with goals and assists regularly, a bang average striker and a goalscorer who will leave before the window closes. Beyond that, we have a few squad players (Carter, Rankin Costello and Edun) none of whom are yet proven at this level, and then lots of seemingly very promising kids beyond that but we don't know how many if any will be ready this season. It's a big ask. You take our biggest 6 losses, Nyambe, Lenihan, Van Hecke, Rothwell, Khadra and presumably Brereton, so we need our 6 signings to adequately replace those 6, which on a budget is a huge ask. You are then also putting total reliance on untested kids to fill the gaps which again is a huge, huge ask.